ext Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> writes: > On a more serious note though, forbidding the user to do things he'd > want to do is a bad design concept ;-=)
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. I have, unfortunately, mostly given up the fight against the moronic requests for these anti-features, but maybe I can find some motivation again. There is a line between being helpful by reminding the user that something unexpectedly bad might happen when he goes forward, and outright preventing him or her from going forward. There are a number of examples in the package manager: - If you don't have 50% of battery or are plugged in, we don't allow you to update the OS. - If you don't have 20% of battery or are plugged in, we don't allow you to install 3rd party applications. - If you are on a cellular connection, we don't allow you to download a OS update beyond a certain size. - If there is a newer version of the store client, you must install it before being able to use the store. (You can't even use the store via its web site in this case since the browser redirects to the store client). I see this anti-feature creep mostly as a disease that has befallen our product managers. They turn into control-freak zombies. I hope I am overreacting. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
